Qualifying for the NHRA Heritage Series at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has concluded. In the Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car class, 21 entries were expected and a record 25 showed up. The class has an eight-car field and all 25 cars struggled to push their way past the cutoff point. All but one struggled, that is.

Leah “Heartbreaker” Pruett-LeDuc of Cherry Valley, Calif., posted the fastest time in the first session of qualifying and then bettered her results in the second stanza to earn No. 1 Qualifier status. LeDuc, driving Steve Plueger’s Plueger & Gyger Mach 1, hammered the field with a pass of 5.810 sec./243.85 mph to claim the top spot. Second was Steve Rajcic of La Habra Heights, Calif., driving Plueger’s L.A. Hooker Mustang.

Jim Goedec of Carson City topped the A/Gas field with a pass of 7.706 sec./167.38 mph. Jimmy White of Covina, Calif., qualified third and Augustine Herrera of La Mirada, Calif. was third. All 10 A/Gas entries qualified for the 16-car field.The NHRA Heritage Series/Rockabilly Rod Reunion concludes on Sunday with nostalgia drag racing eliminations, car show and awards and live bands.